Wherein I Start Reading Fifty (50) Shades of Grey

Okay, so everyone’s been talking about it for ages. Everyone’s reading these books. There’s a movie out. Articles are being written all over the place…

I tend to have a irrational aversion to things that are really popular. But at the same time, I feel its my job to be aware what the general populous is reading.

So I’ve decided to start reading 50 Shades of Grey:

It might take me a little while….

I’ve heard that there’s some racy stuff in there, so I’ve been careful to keep Oot away, lest his innocence be irreparably harmed….

God. He’s such a little ham. I can’t imagine where he gets it from….

Now right now I can hear you thinking, “Pat, did you just spend 500 dollars on books just so you can make a joke on the internet?”

To which I reply: You bet your ass I did. What’s more, I don’t feel even the slightest bit bad about it.

The main reason for this is the fact that Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde is an amazingly good book. And I never feel bad about spending money on books I love. (You can see my gushy review of it over here on Goodreads.)

What’s more, I’m sure I’ll find something else fun to do with these books. Maybe I’ll go and hand them out at the movie theatre to people standing in line to see Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe I’ll just give them away to friends. Maybe we’ll include them in something we’re doing in the future for Worldbuilders.

That’s all I’ve got for today, folks. Sorry to pun and run….

pat

P.S. And just to head off people who will doubtless be asking in the comments. I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey or seen the movie, so I don’t have much of an opinion on them.

That said, I have heard that they’re not a good depiction of proper BDSM behavior. Which is a shame, because tying people up (or being tied up) can be a ton of fun with the right partner if you do it in the right way. Alternately, it can be a supremely bad scene when you do it in the wrong way. Do your homework before jumping into something like this, folks.

Well… when I reviewed it on my blog back in 2011 the sequel was scheduled for 2013… While it would be great I’m not counting on it, especially since he’s been focusing on the “The last dragonslayer”- series the last couple of years.

By the way, you should probably give the rest to worldbuilders or something along that line. I’m just mentioning this on the off chance that you (and others close to you) haven’t thought of it yet, which is unlikely.

A mistake is a mistake, but I take GREAT offense at “cash grab non-book”. I love Slow Regard and Auri and take away something new every time I read it. And…I’m absolutely sure that I’m NOT the only one to feel this way. You’re really gonna dis one of Pat’s books on Pat’s blog? Not cool.

Why would you be justified for throwing a hissy fit if on HIS blog Pat decided to recommend the work or another author (which, btw, he does quite regularly)? Because YOU judged that author’s work inferior? Then get your own blog.

What you did wasn’t an overreaction because you mistakenly thought that Pat was promoting 50 Shades of Grey. The overreaction was that you decided this is a worthy reason of not giving to charity. What kind of douche decides they’re not going to give money to people and children that need it because an author that also gives money to them likes a book they don’t? Like, jesus, get your priorities straight.

Pat, I was so ready, SO READY, to be disappointed. Preparing myself for a let down. To sadly see you somehow not be as wonderful as you are.
Dear God am I happy right now. Thank you for your comments on safety at the end of your post, and for being so entirely dear.
I loved the pun.

I’m such an airhead. I kept saying to myself, but the name of the book is 50! Shades of Grey!!
Went right over my head that this is tongue in cheek and besides I like being tied up so what’s the beef? ;-)
I have not read the book and was about to when I thought you were been real…almost jumped over that cliff!

I tried to watch 50 Shades of Gray but I couldn’t even get through it a second time, since by then I knew that Dr. Pulaski would save the day and cure Commander Riker of his alien thorn virus, and even a second viewing doesn’t add much to the appreciation of that particular episode. I think I must be missing something key here… is it sort of like a fraternity hazing?

I read 50 Shades of Gray (the porno, unfortunately) for a book club and I really wish I had been clever and wealthy enough to take your approach to it. It would have been about a bajillion times more entertaining. And not a waste of brain cells.
Good on ya, poking fun at things. It made me snort so hard I almost woke up my husband.

I liked this one as well and was saddened by the horrible curse of its title. Forde set up a world and spent a good part of the book doing it and once things really started to get going it ended leaving us with a want for more, a lot more. I hope he does write a proper sequel as the amount of work to build a world, makes its laws takes a great amount of time. I feel with the sequel he can just enjoy and let the characters and narrative begin without explaining the chromatics of it all.

It’s good you’re finding the hidden gems if it wasn’t for my brother I’d never find the book above. Maybe in a couple years you can listen or breeze by my character driven Sci-fi books.(Two are in revisions)((Revisions take a while))(((You know revisions take a while))). Well back to my revisions. I wonder what will get finished first, my revisions or eternities end.

Plus I think it is only fair. You wrote for me, or rather, for all of us. It’s only fair I write for you, and everyone else. Especially the kids, the ones who seem a little lost in life. I think I write for them the most. Thanks thou, for writing and shaping and naming.

PS. Poor Auri, her name it will soon get too heavy, heavy as a large stone.

Oooh, that was great xDD
At first, I was like “Why the hell are there that many books, there are only 3…wait, that’s something different…what the-”
At that time, I started laughing, great pun, Pat xD
How’s the book so far?^^